Kyle Rand

Co-Founder & CEO
Rendever
Somerville, MA
  • 10-I. Virtual Reality: Breaking Down Barriers Across the Continuum

    • Tuesday, October 29, 2024

    4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

    10-I. Virtual Reality: Breaking Down Barriers Across the Continuum

    The National Institute on Aging’s THRIVE study demonstrates that virtual reality technology can decrease social isolation, build connections across physical distances, and improve holistic health for older adults. This session will explore the study’s finding that virtual reality technology can enhance quality of life by connecting older adults in senior living communities with family members. Presenters will also highlight two THRIVE pilot programs that use virtual reality technology to connect older adults living at home with their peers in senior living communities. Presenters will explain the potential these pilot programs hold for building relationships across the continuum and re-envisioning senior living sales by encouraging prospective residents to engage with current residents through daily programming.

Connie Rasmussen

Regional Director of Rehabilitation Services
Acts Retirement-Life Communities, Inc.
Fort Washington, PA
  • 108-F. Merge Fitness and Rehab for Optimal Resident Well-Being

    • Monday, October 28, 2024

    4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

    108-F. Merge Fitness and Rehab for Optimal Resident Well-Being

    Rehabilitation services and fitness activities are often provided by separate departments of a life plan community. This session will present a different approach: merging fitness and rehabilitation services into a single department designed to ensure that residents receive early assessments of their fall and injury risks, use the right services at the right time, and spend more years enjoying optimal well-being. Presenters will show you how to develop a comprehensive wellness-based model for all levels of care by combining the skills of fitness and rehabilitation professionals. You’ll learn how to set formal expectations for a new Fitness-Rehabilitation Department and develop a business plan that addresses training needs, budgetary considerations, and marketing opportunities aimed at current and prospective residents.

Vic Rayner

Chair of the Global Ageing Network and CEO
National Care Forum
  • 141-E. The Future of Aging in the United Kingdom

    • Monday, October 28, 2024

    3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    141-E. The Future of Aging in the United Kingdom

    The population of the United Kingdom (UK) is undergoing a massive age shift. By 2050, one in four British citizens will be over 65, causing many to wonder whether a financially secure and healthy later life is becoming increasingly unlikely for millions of people. This session will address these developments while focusing on innovations that could help the UK’s aging services sector achieve a different future. Hear about recent developments in the UK’s care sector, including a growing preference to age at home, significant expansion of small-scale home care providers, and a diverse array of initiatives supporting independence and healthy aging. Consider how these innovations could be applied to other countries around the globe, including the United States.

Deb Reardanz

CEO/President
ClarkLindsey
Urbana, IL
  • 25-L. Retooling the Care Continuum to Create a Sustainable Future

    • Wednesday, October 30, 2024

    11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

    25-L. Retooling the Care Continuum to Create a Sustainable Future

    Life plan communities are thinking in new ways about the care continuum as they carry out their missions in the face of overwhelming operational challenges. These communities no longer expect residents to progress in a linear fashion from one level of care to the next. Instead, they are creating an environment that allows residents to participate in the community’s life without ever living on campus or receiving long-term care in a dedicated skilled care environment. This session will unveil a new way of thinking about the continuum that blurs the lines between levels of living and care and ensures that care can be accessed and delivered in diverse ways and settings. Find out how your life plan community can help drive this change.

Daniel Reingold

President & Chief Executive Officer, River’s Edge
RiverSpring Living
Riverdale, NY
  • 72-L. Tapping For-Profit Expertise to Build for the Future

    • Wednesday, October 30, 2024

    11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

    72-L. Tapping For-Profit Expertise to Build for the Future

    After several years of slower-than-desired progress in developing River’s Edge, New York City’s first life plan community, RiverSpring Living engaged Integrated Development II (ID2), a boutique senior living firm, to complete the project. Through this unique partnership, RiverSpring benefitted from ID2’s expertise without entering a formal joint venture relationship or relinquishing equity. The project is now on track to begin construction in late 2024. This session will describe how the River’s Edge project combined ID2’s entrepreneurial approach with RiverSpring Living’s nonprofit corporate structure, internal resources, and personnel. Presenters will help you understand how a nonprofit organization can work with a for-profit developer to create a winning partnership.

Luz Renteria

Resource Coordinator
Hartford HealthCare Senior Services
Southington, CT
  • 33-G. Feeling Heard and Respected: A Grassroot Approach to DEIB

    • Tuesday, October 29, 2024

    8:15 – 9:15 a.m.

    33-G. Feeling Heard and Respected: A Grassroot Approach to DEIB

    Large organizations can make a significant impact when they take a grassroots approach to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) so everyone feels heard and respected. This session will focus on the DEIB work carried out by Hartford HealthCare (HCC), whose 41,000 employees provide healthcare services in nearly 500 locations throughout Connecticut. Presenters will explain how the promotion of DEIB has become a shared mission for all of HHC’s many departments, including its Center for Healthy Aging. Discover how large organizations can take a grassroots approach to promoting DEIB, the steps you can take to get started, and the keys to maintaining and measuring sustainable change.

Katie Rhone

Senior VP of HERO & Employee Experience
KARE
Houston, TX
  • 149-I. Strengthen Your Workforce with Trauma-Informed Care

    • Tuesday, October 29, 2024

    4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

    149-I. Strengthen Your Workforce with Trauma-Informed Care

    When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services required providers of aging services to implement trauma-informed care in 2019, few organizations understood what this care entailed and why it was necessary. This session will clear up the confusion. Representatives of LeadingAge Gold Partner KARE will help you understand how childhood trauma affects the health and well-being of older adults and the people who care for them. Presenters will show you how to change your organization’s culture, improve frontline caregiver retention, and increase resident satisfaction by addressing employee and resident trauma. Learn how to integrate a knowledge of trauma into organizational policies, procedures, and practices that respect individual differences, trauma histories, and cultural backgrounds.

Aimee Riemke

Vice President, Marketing
Greencroft Communities
Goshen, IN
  • 65-G. Managing Tension Points: Strategic Planning in a Multisite System

    • Tuesday, October 29, 2024

    8:15 – 9:15 a.m.

    65-G. Managing Tension Points: Strategic Planning in a Multisite System

    Strategic planning can be a complex undertaking for any aging services organization. But it is even more demanding for multisite and multistate organizations with matrix-based management systems. This session will present a case study of Greencroft Communities in Goshen, IN. This multisite organization developed a 10-year strategic vision to align all its campus teams around the same mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities. Presenters will focus on how a strategic planning process can effectively manage the tension points within matrix-based management systems and how leadership teams can engage and involve cross-disciplinary teams, campus boards, and the system board in balancing the needs and demands of the local campus communities with broader corporate priorities.

Edgar Rivas

Board Member
Village to Village Network
St. Louis, MO
  • 64-G. Innovating Together: Life Plan Communities and Villages

    • Tuesday, October 29, 2024

    8:15 – 9:15 a.m.

    64-G. Innovating Together: Life Plan Communities and Villages

    A Village is a neighborhood-based nonprofit membership organization that uses volunteers to help older residents remain connected with their neighbors while continuing to live in their own homes. This session will focus on the innovative partnerships that can evolve between Villages and life plan communities. Find out how life plan communities are working with Villages to offer the most appropriate services to individuals living in their homes and communities. You’ll even meet a housing provider that partnered with an Area Agency on Aging to develop a Village within an existing Naturally Occurring Retirement Community. Presenters will discuss federal and state policy changes that could help expand the development of similar models nationwide.

Marybeth Roberts

Director of Sales, Marketing & Communications
John Knox Village
Lees Summit, MO
  • 81-H. Targeted Digital Media: The Secret to Marketing Success

    • Tuesday, October 29, 2024

    3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    81-H. Targeted Digital Media: The Secret to Marketing Success

    John Knox Village, a life plan community in Kansas City, MO, has succeeded in increasing the engagement of prospective residents, optimizing lead quality, increasing sales, and boosting marketing results. During this session, the community’s sales and marketing team will share the secret to its success: advanced technology and targeted digital media. Marketing and financing experts will join the conversation to describe how senior living communities nationwide can use technology tools and digital landscape navigation to generate leads, foster engagement, and guide prospects through the sales cycle. Presenters will also share lessons to help you equip and train your sales team to leverage the power of technology.

Frank Rockwood

Co-Founder
Rockwood Pacific
Orinda, CA
  • 52-A. Should You Transition Away from Skilled Nursing Care?

    • Sunday, October 27, 2024

    1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

    52-A. Should You Transition Away from Skilled Nursing Care?

    The demand for skilled nursing home care has waned in recent years due to the improved health of older adults, reimbursement changes, and increases in care provided in non-skilled settings. This session will focus on three senior living communities that are transitioning from skilled nursing to alternate care models. Presenters will describe a renovation project that converted skilled nursing spaces to memory care, a campus expansion that closed an on-campus skilled nursing setting, and a ground-up life plan community development that offered comprehensive care without on-campus skilled nursing. Join colleagues to discuss how transitions in care delivery can impact financial performance and their implications for strategic planning, financial management, resident relations, and operations.

Robert Rode

Attorney
Voigt, Rode & Boxeth, LLC
Saint Paul, MN
  • 106-E. Sexual Intimacy: How to Support Choice While Managing Risk

    • Monday, October 28, 2024

    3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    106-E. Sexual Intimacy: How to Support Choice While Managing Risk

    A person’s need for intimacy doesn’t disappear as they age, even if their level of cognition declines. However, respecting a resident’s right to intimacy can lead to awkward situations and uncomfortable conversations with other residents, family members, and surveyors. This session will give you the tools to protect and promote each resident’s choice, even in the face of occasional adverse responses. An attorney and a nurse will describe the challenges associated with supporting the intimacy needs of residents, with particular emphasis on residents living with dementia. Presenters will also explain how dementia and memory loss may affect intimacy and decision-making. Learn how to manage resident and family expectations and understand the regulatory implications of intimacy.